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Grammars, Grammarians and Grammar-Writing in Eighteenth-Century England

Edited by: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2008

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Volume 59 | Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]

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The book offers insight into the publication history of eighteenth-century English grammars in unprecedented detail. It is based on a close analysis of various types of relevant information: Alston's bibliography of 1965, showing that this source needs to be revised urgently; the recently published online database Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) with respect to sources of information never previously explored or analysed (such as book catalogues and library catalogues); Carol Percy's database on the reception of eighteenth-century grammars in contemporary periodical reviews; and so-called precept corpora containing data on the treatment in a large variety of grammars (and other works) of individual grammatical constructions.

By focussing on individual grammars and their history a number of long-standing questions are solved with respect to the authorship of particular grammars and related work (the Brightland/Gildon grammar and the Bellum Grammaticale; Ann Fisher's grammar) while new questions are identified, such as the significant change of approach between the publication of one grammar and its second edition of seven years later (Priestley), and the dependence of later practical grammars (for mothers and their children) on earlier publications.

The contributions present a view of the grammarians as individuals with (or without) specific qualifications for undertaking what they did, with their own ideas on teaching methodology, and as writers ultimately engaged in the common aim presenting practical grammars of English to the general public. Interestingly - and importantly - this collection of articles demonstrates the potential of ECCO as a resource for further research in the field.

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Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

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with GGGW scholars and indeed students interested in Late Modern English are provided with an accurate and useful tool by means of wich both the internal and the ecternal history of the language can be studied simultaneously."
Marina Dossena in: Journal of English Languages and Linguistics 3/2009<

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	i
Table of contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	vii
Grammars, grammarians and grammar writing: An introduction Ingrid Tieken-Boon Ostade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part 1. Background
Background: Introduction Ingrid Tieken-Boon Ostade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	17
The eighteenth-century grammarians as language experts Don Chapman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	21
Grammar writers in eighteenth-century Britain: A community of practice or a discourse community? Richard J. Watts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	37
Eighteenth-century grammars and book catalogues Anita Auer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	57
Part 2. Reception and the market for grammars
Reception and the market for grammars: Introduction Ingrid Tieken-Boon Ostade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	79
Bellum Grammaticale (1712) … A battle of books and a battle for the market Astrid Buschmann-Göbels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	81
The 1760s: Grammars, grammarians and the booksellers Ingrid Tieken-Boon Ostade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	101
Mid-century grammars and their reception in the Monthly Review and the Critical Review Carol Percy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	125
Part 3. The grammarians
The grammarians: Introduction Ingrid Tieken-Boon Ostade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	145
Ann Fisher’s A New Grammar, or was it Daniel Fisher s work? María Rodríguez-Gil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	149
Joseph Priestley’s two Rudiments of English Grammar: 1761 and 1768 Jane Hodson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	177
Eighteenth-century teacher-grammarians and the education of “proper” women Karen Cajka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	191
“Borrowing a few passages”: Lady Ellenor Fenn and her use of sources Karlijn Navest Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	223
Part 4. The grammars
The grammars: Introduction Ingrid Tieken-Boon Ostade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	247
Preposition stranding in the eighteenth century: Something to talk about Nuria Yañez-Bouza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	251
Foolish, foolisher, foolishest: Eighteenth-century English grammars and the comparison of adjectives and adverbs Randy Cliffort Bax Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	279
On normative grammarians and the double marking of degree Victorina González-Díaz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	289
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	311

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eBook published on:

August 27, 2008

eBook ISBN:

9783110199185

Hardcover published on:

July 15, 2008

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110196276

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Front matter:

8

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361

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110199185

eBook ISBN: 9783110199185

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110196276

Keywords for this book

English/language; grammarians; historical linguistics

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Scholars (including Postgraduates) interested in the English Standardisation Process, the History of English Grammar generally and in the History of particular Usage Problems as dealt with by Normative Grammarians; Libraries

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Grammars, Grammarians and Grammar-Writing in Eighteenth-Century England

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